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Samantha Snider has been named the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh gymnastics team …
Snider becomes the third head coach in the history of the gymnastics program at Pitt, stepping into her first head coaching role after spending the previous nine seasons at the University of Arkansas. …
You probably know coaches who use marijuana medically or recreationally.
Is marijuana worse than alcohol?
Personally, I feel the safety of children is more often endangered by tipsy / hungover parents or coaches. I worry most about parents who have been drinking driving kids home from Gym.
If marijuana is banned, alcohol should be banned as well.
If your club has a “zero tolerance” policy for employees using illegal drugs click through to this article about a Canadian coach suspended 2015 for using medical marijuana. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal is hearing the appeal.
It’s a more complicated issue than you might think at first glance. Especially with the laws changing in Canada and other parts of the world.
(via Grace Chiu)
I’d still love to see FIG count the mount as one of the 8 skills.
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Terri Laymon posted an update.
Russian gymnasts returned from their training camps in Cyprus (MAG) and Spain (WAG). …
Elena Eremina:
“Recovery camps are different from the regular training camps because there’s a lesser training load. Of course, we tried to rest more – we played beach volleyball, rode bikes a lot, swam, sunbathed. But, at the same time, we still had one full training session each day. …
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Next on the roadmap is the appointment of a FIG Parkour Committee which shall work in three areas, education, development and competitions.
This Committee shall be chaired by David Belle and composed of Charles Perrière and other Parkour experts as well as two athletes’ representatives (one male and one female). …
The roadmap also seeks to provide the staging of a series of Parkour World Cups in 2018 and 2019 together with a first FIG World Championships planned in 2020. …
As for education and development, the Parkour Committee shall be in charge of preparing educational tools for youngsters and coaches’ education programs with a view to put in place a framework in which the amateurs will be able to evolve progressively and in a safe environment. …
I’m confident that FIG Obstacle Course events will be safer than the other alternatives. One upside.
SKATEBOARDING (4 EVENTS)
Park (Men/Women)
Street (Men/Women)
SPORTS CLIMBING (2 EVENTS)
Bouldering, Lead & Speed Combined (Men/Women)
The show is called Little Big Shots.
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That’s Joshua Karnes. Level 8 gymnast from Lakettes Gymnastic Academy, Erie, PA. He won his age group at 2017 Men’s Junior Olympic Championships.
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